Also a fair point that applies across political movements.https://twitter.com/ijbailey/status/1284529289866678275 …
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The opposite lesson is clear. The "barbs", the sharpest moral forces, among them John Lewis, ended up transforming the country. Yeah, his speech was edited tactically, but bare honesty and radical insight underlied his lifetime of change. John Lewis was obviously not a centrist.
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I fully agree Lewis wasn't a centrist. But
@baseballcrank point is correct. Tone does matter even if you're right entirely as Lewis was. The edited speech was more effective at accomplishing the movement's goals. Which is what counts.
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John Lewis died today, of natural causes. MLK was shot to death in 1968.
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And? Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall and other black leaders also died of natural causes and were not assassinated like MLK, who was the sad exception on that regard.
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Civility has saved no one.pic.twitter.com/xBNjK4ilRs
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Uncivility ALSO often saves no one, too, if you don't believe that, look on the French and Russian revolutions...
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Yeah, police brutality is no longer a problem, good thinking there baseball man.
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good faith response: the very first line stricken from Lewis’s speech was warning the legislation. didn’t address police brutality. Wouldn’t it have vastly advanced the cause & prevented this moment if it had? Seems like points *against* moderation https://twitter.com/prismxp/status/1284334760844820480?s=21 …https://twitter.com/prismxp/status/1284334760844820480 …
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Not if it poisoned the legislation and they didn’t get anything.
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